For a house party, the cheaper the fireworks the better - everyone likes an underdog, no one likes a show off.

Pre-booking a cab doesn’t mean you’re dull, it means you don’t want to shout out your postcode three times to a man from Diamond Cars while dancing to Billie Jean, before lurking in the hallway till 3am.

If you’ve decided to stay in, make sure you tell everyone you know beforehand. Then it becomes a cultural statement of self-empowerment and not just an evening on the sofa watching Graham Norton.

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